United Kingdom’s wartime scientific establishment

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The United Kingdom’s wartime scientific establishment was the network of government laboratories, academic institutions, and industrial research groups that coordinated and advanced British science and technology for military purposes during the Second World War.

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instanceOf scientific organization network ⓘ
wartime research establishment ⓘ
collaboratedWith Canadian wartime scientific establishment ⓘ
United States scientific establishment ⓘ
coordinatedBy Admiralty ⓘ
Advisory Council for Scientific Research and Technical Development ⓘ
Ministry of Aircraft Production ⓘ
Ministry of Supply ⓘ
Office of the Lord President of the Council ⓘ
War Office ⓘ
country United Kingdom ⓘ
endTime 1945 ⓘ
fieldOfWork aeronautical engineering ⓘ
applied physics ⓘ
chemical warfare defence ⓘ
cryptanalysis ⓘ
electronics ⓘ
military science ⓘ
nuclear physics ⓘ
operational research ⓘ
radar technology ⓘ
weapons development ⓘ
hasPart British academic institutions ⓘ
British government research laboratories ⓘ
British industrial research groups ⓘ
includes Admiralty Research Laboratory ⓘ
Admiralty Signal Establishment ⓘ
Armament Research Department ⓘ
Bawdsey Research Station ⓘ
Bletchley Park ⓘ
Cavendish Laboratory ⓘ
Chemical Defence Experimental Station Porton Down ⓘ
Clarendon Laboratory ⓘ
Operational Research Sections of the armed services ⓘ
Royal Aircraft Establishment ⓘ
Royal Society scientific committees ⓘ
Telecommunications Research Establishment ⓘ
influenced development of Big Science in the United Kingdom ⓘ
postwar British defence research structure ⓘ
notableProject Chain Home radar system ⓘ
Tube Alloys nuclear weapons research programme ⓘ
airborne interception radar ⓘ
anti-submarine warfare technologies ⓘ
bombsight and bombing accuracy improvements ⓘ
cavity magnetron development ⓘ
codebreaking of Enigma traffic ⓘ
early electronic computing for cryptanalysis ⓘ
proximity fuze research ⓘ
operatedDuring Second World War ⓘ
linked to: World War II
startTime 1939 ⓘ

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